publication catalog 2013

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02SMASHING MEDIA GMBH PUBLICATIONS CATALOG

Copyright 2013 Smashing Media GmbHFreiburg, GermanyVersion: January 2013

Marketing & PR: Stephan PoppeMarketing & Sales: Andrew RogersonDesign: Ricardo GimenesIdea & Concept: Smashing Media GmbH

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Smashing Media GmbH is one of the worlds leading online publishing companies in the field of Web design. Found-ed in 2009 by Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman, the companys headquarters is situated in southern Germany, in the sunny city of Freiburg im Breisgau. Smashing Medias lead publication, Smashing Magazine, has gained world-wide attention since its emergence back in 2006, and is supported by the vast, global Smashing community and readership. Smashing Magazine had proven to be a trustworthy online source containing high quality articles on progressive design and coding techniques as well as recent developments in the Web design industry.

Smashing Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to Web designers and developers worldwide. Its rigorous quality control and thorough editorial work has gathered a devoted community exceeding half a million subscribers, followers and fans. Each and every published article is carefully prepared, edited, reviewed and curated according to the high quality standards set in Smashing Magazines own publishing policy. Smashing Magazine publishes articles on a daily basis with topics ranging from business, visual design, typography, front-end as well as back-end development, all the way to usability and user experience design. The magazine is and always has been a professional and independ-ent online publication neither controlled nor influenced by any third parties, delivering content in the best interest of its readers. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to assure that the quality of the published content is never compromised.

ABOUT SMASHING MEDIA GMBH

ABOUT SMASHING MAGAZINE

www.smashing-media.com

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BRANDING LICENSINGAre you an author with high standards and expert knowledge on Web-related topics? Would you would like to publish using Smashing Magazines branding, and benefit from valuable worldwide brand recognition? Smashing Media is always on the lookout for interesting, future-oriented literature that is ready to investigate the latest trends and topics in Web design and development.

Our extensive social media coverage (and highly qualified audience) are keen to get their hands on the latest publi-cations. A well thought-out marketing strategy may actually bring your pub-lication the kind of attention you have been expecting.

We welcome any submissions for consid-eration purposes, and will do our best to provide you with a custom offer tailored to your audience and your needs. Please contact us for further information on col-laboration opportunities.

Are you interested in spreading knowledge of Web design and Web development around the globe? Interested in acquiring translation licenses, educational licenses or corporate licenses for particular Smashing Media publications such as eBooks, print books or bundle offers?

TRANSLATION LICENSESThe much lauded Smashing eBook series and Book series have not yet reached every corner of the globe. We offer the opportunity for publishing companies around the world to acquire translation licenses for all of our publications. This would cover the exclusive publishing rights throughout that respective language region. Please get in touch with us to receive an up-to-date list of the available translation licenses.

EDUCATIONAL LICENSESSmashing Media strongly supports and encourages the highest international standard for educating Web design and Web development. Our eBook and printed book series present a unique work of reference on the development and the latest trends in Web technologies, techniques and tendencies. Please contact us to receive a custom offer for the titles of your choice, which may be used in lectures or in addition to your university library. Our eBooks are DRM-free, and we invite students to use these vast resources within the scope of their curricular activities. This would ensure current, topical perspectives in Web techniques and developments.

CORPORATE LICENSESAre you part of a large team of developers or Web designers? Is your company constantly on the lookout for good lit-erature on the latest in Web technologies? We publish additions to our Smashing eBook series on a regular basis and are ready to offer you a subscription deal for our complete eBook series. You would be free to use and distribute all of the titles (to the extent of your companys business) and would be quick to learn and appreciate the uncontested value and outstanding quality of our publications. Interested in receiving an offer? Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us we look forward to your enquiries.


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We care about quality content and work hard to support and spread best practices, innovative techniques and forward-think-ing ideas on Web design and Web development. Our printed Smashing Books are crafted to deliver in-depth knowledge and expertise shared by experts and practitioners from the industry. They are our editorial flagshipsand they look damn good on a coffee table!

Over the last years, weve printed four printed books with exclu-sive content, all carefully edited and thoroughly reviewed accord-ing to the rigorous quality control that Smashing Magazines on-line articles are known for. The books cover the various areas of Web design and Web development and established themselves as a valuable, quality books for Web professionals.

The Mobile Book

Smashing Books #3 and #3

The Smashing Book #3: Redesign The Web

The Smashing Book #3: The Extension

The Smashing Book #2


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The future is mobile. As more and more people are turning to mobile devices and tablets, designers and developers are facing new challenges and opportunities. What does the mobile market look like, in general? What do you need to know to pick the right mobile strategy and select the right approach for your mobile presence? What design patterns and what UX design techniques can assist you to design quicker and better for mobile devices?

The brand new Mobile Book, published by well-renowned Smash-ing Magazine (an online magazine for professional designers and developers) features the most important things that you, as a designer, developer or mobile strategist, need to know for your websites. Youll dive deep into the peculiarities of the mobile in-dustry, explore responsive design strategy, design patterns and optimization techniques, learning about wireframing and proto-typing for mobile, as well as the guidelines for designing with gestures and touch. As a bonus, the book provides insights into the most popular platforms (such as iOS, Windows Phone, etc.) as well as introduces developing and debugging techniques for advanced HTML5 Web applications.

Well-known experts such as Peter-Paul Koch, Trent Walton, Brad Frost, Josh Clark, Remy Sharp and Stephanie Rieger have con-tributed to the book to present the most relevant and valuable insights. To ensure the quality of the book, the chapters have been reviewed by Scott Jenson, Tim Kadlec, Bruce Lawson and other active members of the mobile design community.

The Mobile Book

PAGES: 320 PAGES, 16.5 24 CM (6.5 x 9.5 INCHES).

QUALITY: FULL-COLOR IMAGES ON COATED PAPER. HARD COVER.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 2012

EDITION: FIRST EDITION

PUBLISHER: SMASHING MEDIA GMBH

ISBN: 978-3-943075-46-5

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In recent years, the Web has changeda lot. The Web designers tools are now advanced, and browsers are highly capable. De-signers have established clever coding and design techniques, as they face new challenges and embrace new technologies. These changes are fundamental and require us to reconsider how we approach Web design. Its time to rethink and reinvent: it is time to redesign the Web. Thats exactly where the new Smashing Books come in: they will change the way you design websites for the better.


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Unlike its predecessors, the new Smashing Book has the main theme: Redesign. A detailed look at the business and techni-cal side of redesign is followed by a comprehensive overview of advanced HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript techniques that you can use today. You will get useful advice on innovative UX tech-niques, learn about the peculiarities of mobile context in Web design and discover useful Photoshop techniques. Finally, youll study a practical hands-on guide to a bulletproof workflow for responsive Web design.

Smashing Book #3 is a professional guide on how to redesign websites, but it also introduces a whole new mindset for progres-sive Web design. The book challenges you to think differently about your work and will change the way you design websites forever.

Smashing Book #3: Redesign The Web

PAGES: 340 PAGES, 16.5 24.0 CM(6.5 9.5 INCHES).

COVER DESIGN:VEERLE PIETERS

QUALITY: FULL-COLOR IMAGES ON COATED PAPER. FLEXBOUNDCOVER.

BINDING:QUALITY STITCHED BINDING WITH A BOOKMARK.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, KOREAN, CHINESE AND RUSSIAN

RELEASED: MAY 2012



ISBN: 978-3-943075-40-3

LANGUAGE LICENSES SOLD:CHINESE, KOREAN AND RUSSIAN


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Smashing Book 3, otherwise known as The Extension, pre-sents practical applications of storytelling to Web design, re-views emerging navigation design patterns and helps you un-derstand how to meaningfully employ content strategy in your websites. A case study of Smashing Magazines responsive re-design illustrates how this approach could look like in practice. This book is the extension of the brand new Smashing Book #3, a valuable practical book on best practices and innovative design techniques for Web design.

Smashing Book #3: The Extension

PAGES: 160 PAGES, 14.0 21.0 CM (5.5 8.3 INCHES).

COVER DESIGN:VEERLE PIETERS

QUALITY: FULL-COLOR IMAGES ON COATED PAPER. FLEXBOUNDCOVER.

BINDING:QUALITY STITCHED BINDING.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, KOREAN AND CHINESE

RELEASED: MAY 2012



ISBN: 978-3-943075-41-0



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This book shares valuable practical insight into design, usabil-ity and coding. It provides professional advice for designing mo-bile applications and building successful e-commerce websites, and it explains common coding mistakes and how to avoid them. Youll explore the principles of professional design thinking and graphic design and learn how to apply psychology and game theory to create engaging user experiences. We also feature in-terviews from experts on the future of Web typography and de-scribe how you can publish a book on your own.

Smashing Book #2

PAGES: 355 PAGES, 5.83 8.27 INCHES (14.8 21.0 CM).

QUALITY: FULL-COLOR IMAGES ON COATED PAPER. HARD COVER.

BINDING:QUALITY STITCHED BINDING WITH A BOOKMARK

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

RELEASED: JANUARY 2011

EDITION: THIRD EDITION


ISBN: 978-3-943075-39-7



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The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding to end up with intuitive and effective Web designs. As a bonus, you will also get a peek behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine.

This first Smashing Book looks at Web design rules of thumb, color theory, usability guidelines, user interface design, best coding and optimization practices, as well as typography, mar-keting, branding and exclusive insights from top designers across the globe.

Smashing Book #1

PAGES: 313 PAGES, 8.27 5.5 INCHES (21 14 CM).

QUALITY: FULL-COLOR IMAGES ON COATED PAPER. SOFT COVER.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

RELEASED: FEBRUARY 2009

EDITION: FOURTH EDITION


ISBN: 978-3-943075-38-0



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eBook versions of all our bestselling books are also available Smashing Book #1 and Smashing Book #2, The Lost Files (an annex to The Smashing Book #2) and our brand new Smashing Book #3 + #3 titled Redesign The Web. All eBooks are avail-able in the PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats.

The Smashing Book I eBook Editions

Formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle (DRM-free)Language: EnglishReleased: May 2012 Publisher: Smashing Media GmbHISBN: 978-3-943075-29-8Language Licenses Sold: Russian, Chinese and Korean

Smashing Book #3: Redesign The Web (eBook, 2012)

The Mobile Book (eBook, 2012)

Formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle (DRM-free)Language: EnglishRelease Date: November 2012 Publisher: Smashing Media GmbHISBN: 978-3-943075-46-5Language Licenses Sold:


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Formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle (DRM-free)Language: EnglishReleased: March 2011 Publisher: Smashing Media GmbHISBN: 978-3-943075-22-9

Formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle (DRM-free)Language: EnglishReleased: March 2011Publisher: Smashing Media GmbHISBN: 978-3-943075-06-9

Smashing Book #2

Smashing Book #1

Formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle (DRM-free)Language: EnglishReleased: May 2012 Publisher: Smashing Media GmbHISBN: 978-3-943075-30-4Language Licenses Sold: Chinese and Korean

Smashing Book #3: The Extension (eBook, 2012)

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Smashing eBook SeriesWe care about quality content and work hard to make the reading experience of our readers as convenient as possible. Our articles on Webdesign and Web development are presented in a regular way on Smashing Magazine, but they are all the more carefully edited, reviewed and curated for our ad-free eBooksaccording to our quality standards and publishing policy.

All Smashing eBooks are in English and published by Smashing Media GmbH.

All Smashing eBooks are provided DRMfree as PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. They are also available on AmazonKindleStore, Google Play and AppleiBookstore.

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Essentials Of Mobile Design

FORMATS:PDF, EPUB, KINDLE (DRM-FREE)

PAGES:253

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:SEPTEMBER 2012

PUBLISHER:SMASHING MEDIA GMBH

ISBN978-3-943075-42-7

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Designing for Mobile can be very complex it requires many skills such as programming, usability, typography, creating ap-plications all of this without forgetting the necessary ingredient of visual appeal. This eBook Essentials of Mobile Design will give you an overview of the basic features you need to know for designing beautiful and useful Mobile interfaces and apps.


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Mobile Design Patterns


PAGES:124

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-43-4

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Since the appearance of the smartphone and tablet computers, we are experiencing a boom in Mobile Design. And, as it hap-pens with the development of new gadgets and technologies, some trends and patterns are already established. With this eB-ook Mobile Design Patterns, you will learn the most important guidelines and strategies for Mobile Design, including solutions for forms, tap-ahead patterns and UX approaches.

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Designing For Android


PAGES:228

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-44-1

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If you intend to design for Mobile, you might have to pay attention to the democratic scenario that gives shape to this niche. Many developers are aware of this: by using the Android operating sys-tem to create apps, they acquire a huge market share. This eB-ook will guide you through the Android universe and help you to create interface designs for Android mobile gadgets.

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Designing For iPhone


PAGES:234

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-45-8

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With almost half of the smartphone market share, the iPhone is a concrete confirmation that its worth it to be a vanguardist in technology. Designers that have familiarity with the Apple iOS are one step ahead in designing mobile interfaces. If you want do discover trends and special requirements that iPhone applica-tions ask for, this eBook Designing For iPhone is a must.

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You know it and so do your clients: taking mobile devices into account is a crucial requirement for the success of websites to-day. Advanced smartphones and tablets like the iPhone and iPad are gaining popularity, and mobile Web usage is growing with no end in sight. Consequently, we designers have to create engag-ing mobile experiences, with state-of-the-art design solutions. This eBook offers everything you need to keep up in the mobile Web game.

Helpful articles on mobile Web design practices and iPhone apps, along with practical tips on design from Smashing Mag-azines professional authors, are complemented by insight into responsive Web design techniques and an exclusive study on mobile Web design trends. Get set to market your own mobile application; be aware of common visual and contextual mistakes, and avoid usability slip-ups that could cost you precious clicks.

Mobile Design for iPhone & iPad


PAGES:304

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:NOVEMBER 2010


ISBN978-3-943075-01-4

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Navigation & Interaction


PAGES:

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RELEASED:DECEMBER 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-56-4

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Emotional Design Elements


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ISBN978-3-943075-57-1

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UX Design Process


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ISBN978-3-943075-58-8

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By now, all good designers understand the importance of us-ability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experi-ence, and great experiences lead to happy customers. This eB-ook features selected articles on UI design and innovative UX techniques that will help improve your websites user experience and satisfy your visitors. Learn about designing drop-down men-us, log-in and sign-up forms, navigation menus, tracking errors as well as common usability mistakes in Web design. Make your visitors happy with smart design decisions.

User Experience, Practical Techniques, Vol. 2


PAGES:145

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:MAY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-32-8

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The user-centered design process is based on various steps, each with its respective approaches. Learn about designing flows, optimizing emotional engagement and performing heuris-tic website reviews. This eBook provides you with several practi-cal techniques that will help make your Web applications appeal to the masses, transforming them into lightweight yet efficient user experiences.

Designing Usable Websites


PAGES:97

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:MAY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-28-1

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Testing usability is vital to creating a successful website even more so if its an e-commerce website, a complex app or any other complicated project. Unlike interviews and focus groups, a well-designed user test measures actual performance. This eB-ook provides a guide to A/B testing, multivariate testing, tips for increasing conversion rates and a review of testing methods and tools.

Usability Testing


PAGES:97

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:MAY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-31-1

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User Experience (UX) can be strongly influenced by behavioral factors such as emotions, beliefs, preferences and even cul-tural backgrounds. Being aware of this, Web designers keep developing strategies to improve the overall UX with the help of storytelling, tools for problem solving, relationship engineer-ing and costumer service improvement. This Smashing eBook User Experience Design provides you with insights on how to improve your website based on the most important UX princi-ples.

User Experience Design


PAGES:134

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:FEBRUARY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-23-6

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Among the most important ingredients for successful Web de-signs are creativity, planning, coding and design skills. How-ever, many people forget that various psychological factors also play an important role when making design decisions. Psy-chology of Web Design gives you insights on how the human brain deals with different elements, colors, contrast, symmetry and balance. Combining the usability guidelines from Maslows pyramid will surely help you design closer to your audiences desires.

Psychology of Web Design


PAGES:272

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-24-3

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Are you familiar with the term User Experience (UX) and the principles that determine a user-friendly website? If yes, then all you need to do is to learn some more useful techniques that will make your user interface designs even better! User Experience, Practical Techniques, Volume 1 features seven selected articles on usability principles which will help you design user-centered websites by showing you helpful examples of the best practices and which common mistakes to avoid in your next project.

User Experience, Practical Techniques, Vol. 1


PAGES:149

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-25-0

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Designing and developing e-commerce websites is a puzzle with thousands of pieces. Not only are the layout and structure of your Web store important, but you also have to keep the user experience and conversion rates in mind. These are what, in the end, really convince your clients customers to click that shiny Buy now button.

In this eBook youll be studying the universal principles for suc-cessful e-commerce websites, which include improving your check-out process and making your product displays more at-tractive. In reality, optimizing your conversion rates takes little effort. Find out how to resolve small usability issues to immense effect. Are you familiar with A/B and multivariate testing? Use them to figure out how customers respond to minimal changes in design, content structure and check-out convenience. Cus-tomers decide whether to stay on a page in just a few (milli)seconds, so you better make them count!

How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites


PAGES:266

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-04-5

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No matter what direction you take when you begin a Web-based project, one thing is for sure: it has to begin with solid HTML. You are one step ahead if you apply the most up-to-date HTML tech-niques. This eBook HTML Essentials will give you an overview on HTML, teach you how to decouple HTML from CSS, show the reasons why you should use HTML5, and many other tools for your next Web-based project.

HTML Essentials


PAGES:106

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:AUGUST 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-34-2

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The Web changes everyday and, as a Web-developer, you are probably eager to keep up with the various techniques that help optimizing your workflow. This eBook Mastering HTML5 ex-plains to you the facts and myths of HTML5, shows how to use local storage on websites, teaches how to optimize images with HTML5 canvas and how to sync content with HTML5 video.

Mastering HTML5


PAGES:93

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-35-9

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Probably you are aware that one way to reinforce the meaning of website information is the use of HTML semantics. This eB-ook HTML Semantics addresses various topics such as outlin-ing algorithms, the pursuit of semantic value and the semantic grid system.

HTML Semantics


PAGES:71

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH



ISBN978-3-943075-36-6

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This eBook explores some practical implementations of CSS, looking at CSS float theory, z-index property, !important decla-ration, specificity, advanced CSS selectors, pseudo-elements, techniques for decoupling HTML from CSS, CSS layouts with equal height columns and CSS sprites. Handling your CSS well is the key to improving both performance and maintainability of your Web pages across different browsers. With this eBook, youll get off to a good start.

CSS Essentials


PAGES:191

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:JULY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-37-3

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New possible uses of CSS appear every day, and you shouldnt miss any of them. This eBook Mastering CSS3 features recent CSS3 techniques, a detailed overview of advanced CSS3 pseu-do-classes, CSS3 Flexbox, CSS animations and 3D transforms and modern techniques for constructing page layouts, among others.

Can you really replace Photoshop with visual CSS3 techniques? Does CSS3 actually improve the speed of development and maintenance? What about common considerations for older browsers? You can be sure to gain insights from case-studies presented in this eBook

Mastering CSS3


PAGES:251

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:JULY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-27-4

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Responsive design is not only a new technique its an entirely new mindset. This eBook explains the foundation of responsive Web design and techniques for approaching it. Learn about con-tent prototyping, device-agnostic design approach, gracefully degrading media queries and navigation patterns to achieve flawless responsiveness. Choose the right approach to a respon-sive project and avoid some common mistakes its worth it!

Responsive Design


PAGES:160

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:JULY 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-33-5

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Practical JavaScript Techniques


PAGES:

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RELEASED:JANUARY 2013


ISBN978-3-943075-59-5

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Undertanding Advanced JavaScript


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The number of online solutions provided for JavaScript is grow-ing every day. However, the workflow of Web developers and designers frequently culminates to confusion and disorientation due the information overflow. In order to organize this informa-tion and provide you with helpful guidelines to successfully op-timize your next Web project, we offer you this Smashing eBook JavaScript Essentials. Filled with up-to-date lessons on coding reviews, JavaScript scopes and implementations, AJAX and vari-ous tips on JavaScript solutions, this eBook is essential for im-proving your JavaScript knowledge.

JavaScript Essentials


PAGES:142

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ISBN978-3-943075-21-2

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jQuery is well-known for being a concise JavaScript library that helps simplify HTML document traversing, event handling, creat-ing animations and Ajax interactions for rapid Web development. Choosing the right plugins, creating bookmarklets, setting pat-terns or manipulating images can be challenging even for ex-perienced programmers. In order to help you avoid struggling with such decision issues, weve selected articles with the most exclusive, top-notch advice on jQuery in our latest release: the Smashing eBook Mastering jQuery. This eBook contains just the orientation you need to optimize your forthcoming jQuery projects!

Mastering jQuery


PAGES:122

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ISBN978-3-943075-20-5

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Web design, with its wide range of disciplines and fields, is not an easy nut to crack. However, it is possible to put together a book with some of the crucial principles and fundamentals that you will need for every project you take on.

Learn about the harsh truths of corporate Web design and the troubles you are bound to run into. Create effective online portfo-lios with optimized user experiences, without the usual trial and error. Use storytelling to create engaging user experiences. Im-press clients by staying on top of enhancements and Web stand-ards. And in case youre wondering how to handle clients, we have some professional advice on how to deal with exceptional situations and customer requests.

This guide to professional Web design was carefully selected, prepared and edited to bring you the most useful Web design ad-vice from Smashing Magazines articles. Know where you stand, put your situation in perspective, and get the advice youve been looking for.

Professional Web Design, Vol. 1


PAGES:242

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:MARCH 2010


ISBN978-3-943075-02-1

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The pace at which the Web rolls today has picked up, and we feel obliged to give you a status report and outlook. This eBook fo-cuses on recent changes in Web development, as well as design trends that are likely to catch on and could have a substantial effect on our workflow.

Be prepared for the onset of innovative approaches such as re-sponsive Web design, and learn how to apply psychology-based persuasion triggers in your designs. Clear up some myths about HTML5 and CSS3, and make use of the design matrix method-ology.

This eBook describes existing and upcoming trends, and ex-plains how Web design could evolve in the coming months and years. It also touches on what Web designers should be ready for and how to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities. Check whether you are up to date and ready to implement what is required in order to keep up in your field.

Professional Web Design, Vol. 2


PAGES:242

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:MARCH 2011


ISBN978-3-943075-09-0

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Typography is everywhere. If you walk out the door, you will be hard pressed to find any element of our daily lives that doesnt in-volve or rely on typography. The prevalence of typography is not limited only to the analog world. This eBook introduces historical and cultural aspects of this topic and how they relate to the Web industry. Find out about changing fads in type, about the com-plexities of Japanese characters and typographic applications in different situations. You are sure to learn something from our great authors, that you didnt know before.

Legacy of Typography


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ISBN978-3-943075-54-0

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Web design is not just about flamboyant or simply beautiful web-site appearance. This book is about the small but crucial de-tails, in a specialty that is all about details. Whether youre inter-ested in determining the right paragraph layout or typographic details, observing the correct etiquette, or other small decisions that will dramatically influence how your website is perceived; many answers will present themselves in this collection of arti-cles.

Typography Best Practices


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ISBN978-3-943075-55-7

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Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web work-ers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This eBook gives you the necessary background on macro- and micro-typography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as Web font embedding. Its a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

The implications of desktop publishing, where anybody who has access to a computer can set type, have led to a flood of poorly designed brochures, flyers and web pages. In Web design espe-cially illegible text, incorrect use of punctuation marks and inap-propriate font combinations or use of line widths are frequent. The new techniques that Web fonts offer might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible Web typography.

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is a collection of Smash-ing Magazines best and most recent articles on web typography with one additional article series and glossary. You can use this eBook as reference work for your projects.

Web Typography


PAGES:265

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:OOCTOBER 2012


ISBN978-3-943075-07-6

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Like most elements (such as typography, color, layout and con-tent), photography is a crucial component on interfaces and for websites. This is one of the reasons why new tools are created by heavy users of Photoshop. This eBook Mastering Photoshop, Vol. 3 offers hints for recent techniques, such as using brush tools, anti-aliasing typography, layer and grid settings, unveiling masks and perfecting pixels.

Mastering Photoshop, Vol. 3


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ISBN978-3-943075-47-2

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One of the most beloved vector graphic softwares among Web Designers is Adobe Illustrator. But getting to know all of its tools and features can be time-consuming. With this eBook we try to ease the learning process for you. Youll get to learn how to cre-ate graphics, transform a sketch into a vector, combine analog and digital techniques, prepare artwork for screen printing and also learn useful typography tips, all focusing on Adobe Illustra-tor.

Mastering Illustrator


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ISBN978-3-943075-48-9

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With an interface similar to other creative softwares from Adobe, Fireworks allows Web Designers to create interfaces and pro-totypes for their websites. Its especially helpful to see whether your application works properly before moving onto the develop-ment stage. This eBook will show you what can be achieved with Adobe Fireworks; such as creating interactive prototypes, time savers, parent libraries and extracting logos. You might even re-think your workflow after having finished this reading.

Mastering Fireworks


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ISBN978-3-943075-49-6

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As the technology becomes more advanced, all of us seek for time-saving tips and guidelines to make our work much more effective and productive. The eBook Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2 contains articles that cover useful and partly unknown Photoshop techniques and tricks from experts in the field. The articles discuss retouching, cloning, compositing, ob-scure Photoshop timesavers and designing for iPhone.

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photo-shop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more power-ful by using advanced techniques and design approaches that professionals and experts in the field are using regularly. The better our professional skills are, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen. This book will help you master-ing Photoshop and gain a more efficient, advanced workflow in your design process.



PAGES:216

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:APRIL 2011


ISBN978-3-943075-12-0

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Many claim to be able to teach you how to master Photoshop, so why should you trust this eBook to explain techniques any bet-ter than others? Here is why: because the book was written by someone just like you.

Have you reached a dead end and feel like a massive barrier stands between your creativity and the screen? Thomas Giannat-tasio has been there and knows how to help. He has put together an intuitive guide to color management, as well as detailed in-structions on how to get the most out of paths and brushes in this eBook. Handle layer styles like a pro, take your typography to the next level, and make your photographs look like a professionals with native CS5 techniques.



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ISBN978-3-943075-00-7

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As one of the leading forms of content management on the Web, WordPress offers users and developers a lot of options, yet its versatility is often underestimated. These authors will help you understand more of what WordPress is capable of. Youll learn simple tricks for customizing the CMSs default functionality, user access and back-end; as well as more involved techniques for manipulating taxonomies, toolbars and redirection paths. Those of you who really want to tackle WordPress functionality will learn how to test those plugins youve painstakingly created.

Useful Tricks and Techniques for WordPress


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ISBN978-3-943075-51-9

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One of the great aspects of WordPress is its incredible adaptabil-ity. Using WordPress to the fullest means finding out about all the special features you can implement on your website. So without further adieu, here is an assortment of useful techniques. Find out more about WordPresss responsive possibilities, such as how to build a responsive theme from the ground up, implement-ing your theme and customizing images for a responsive site. Also learn how to speed up your site, integrate social-networking capabilities and manage events and author listings.

WordPress Special Features


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ISBN978-3-943075-52-6

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WordPress is an economy in its own right. To really understand this, one has to know its history. In this eBook, you can find out about the economy that developed around this revolutionary CMS. The authors will introduce you to WordPress development, show you how to profit from WordPress development and explain how to effectively introduce the end user to WordPress. The goal of this eBook is to help you take advantage of the WordPress economy and make money as a WordPress developer.

Business Considerations in WordPress Economy


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ISBN978-3-943075-53-3

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If you want to find out how to extend the limitations of WordPress, this Smashing eBook: WordPress Essentials for advanced begin-ners will help you improve your capabilities, so you can take full advantage of its flexibility. This eBook is packed with copy-paste coding snippets and provides practical advice, such as useful techniques for creating your own plugins, adding menus as well as sub menus, and also how to avoid problems with JavaScript and CSS. Find out how to use AJAX and extend the possibilities of WordPress by integrating custom HTML5 tags. With the help of these articles, youll be sure to achieve a good command of better image management and learn how to build media-heavy sites, how to integrate Facebook and receive the best tips about the latest developments in WordPress.

WordPress Essentials


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ISBN978-3-943075-16-8

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This Smashing eBook Mastering WordPress is exactly about the above mentioned. Weve selected only the best articles on how to use extensions for WordPress with an amazing collection of copy-paste coding snippets. They explain advanced methods and techniques which go beyond front-end experience and show how to customize back-end experience. After reading this eB-ook, you will be able to transform your website into whatever you want you just have to use your imagination. Make sure you add this source of knowledge to your library!

Mastering WordPress


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ISBN978-3-943075-18-2

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This eBook WordPress Tutorials is filled with detailed tech-niques which will show you the step-by-step of various enhance-ment processes on WordPress publishing. Including tabs into the user interface, adding media elements, applying plug-ins and creating custom meta boxes are a few examples of what is ex-pecting you. Why wait until your clients ask what can be done when you can anticipate their expectations and impress them with your know-how?

WordPress Tutorials


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ISBN978-3-943075-19-9

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It didnt work out as you expected, did it? The freelancing life was supposed to give you more time with the family and free you from that incompetent boss. You even assumed you would be better off financially. Instead, youre working longer hours and are under constant stress, worrying about various aspects of your business. It has to stop.

If you are thinking of freelancing or are close to surrendering to your workload, then this eBook will be a treasure chest for you. Realizing that you have made the same mistakes as many be-fore you can be a relief. Read up on how to pitch like a pro and handle your finances properly. Get precious tips on a key issue in freelancing: communication with clients and partners. Compel-ling marketing strategies will brighten your future, win contracts and make your business profitable.

Successful Freelancing


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RELEASED:JUNE 2010


ISBN978-3-943075-05-2

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Being a great Web designer or developer is one thing; running a successful freelance business is another. Whether you already have experience working for a company or have just graduated from design school, being self-employed entails a number of tasks that you most likely havent had to deal with so far. As a freelance Web designer, youll often have to do it all yourself, and sometimes all alone.

This eBook provides financial and legal advice that will surely help you to improve your business workflow, and help you carry out sound decisions when engaging in business with clients. Ad-ditionally, weve carefully prepared samples of legal documents, along with explanations of their purpose and best use.

Professional Workflow


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LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

RELEASED:MAY 2011


ISBN978-3-943075-15-1

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